E E E are each priming charges of seven grains of pistol powder, made up in shalloon bags to insure the ignition of the bursting charge, which is in a bag of serge and shalloon beneath.    From Wordnik.com.  [Scientific American Supplement, No. 586, March 26, 1887] Reference

"Akeelah" is touted on the sleeves slipped onto the Starbucks cups (it sells 4 million beverages daily), emblazoned with obscure words like "shalloon," a lightweight wool fabric used for coat linings.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Starbucks Jolt to the Big Screen] Reference

The bed in a corner was hung in blue shalloon over ruffled white muslin, and there was blue at the windows.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Three Black Pennys A Novel] Reference

It was comfortably hung with a sort of warm-coloured worsted, manufactured in Scotland, approaching in trexture to what is now called shalloon.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Bride of Lammermoor] Reference

I have little further to say of Mr Knapps, except that he wore a black shalloon loose coat; on the left sleeve of which he wiped his pen, and upon the right, but too often, his ever-snivelling nose.    From Wordnik.com.  [Jacob Faithful] Reference

You must also send me a fine cloth jockey coat of same colour with the wastecoat & breeches, lin'd with a fine shalloon of same colour & trim'd plain, onely a button with same sort of that with the wastecoat, but propor - tionably bigger.    From Wordnik.com.  [Collections of the Massachusetts Historical Society] Reference

If his coat be of woollen-cloth, he has that from Yorkshire; the lining is shalloon from Berkshire; the waistcoat is of callamanco from Norwich; the breeches of a strong drugget from Devizes, Wiltshire; the stockings being of yarn from Westmoreland; the hat is a felt from Leicester; the gloves of leather from Somersetshire; the shoes from Northampton; the buttons from Macclesfield in Cheshire, or, if they are of metal, they come from Birmingham, or Warwickshire; his garters from Manchester; his shirt of home-made linen of Lancashire, or Scotland.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Complete English Tradesman (1839 ed.)] Reference

Chawner dealt in shalloon, Mid.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Romance of Names] Reference

In blue shalloon shall Hannibal be clad.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Poems of Jonathan Swift, D.D., Volume 1] Reference

23. shalloon.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Spelling-Book for Advanced Classes] Reference

Dimity, corduroy, buckram, fustian, holland, shalloon, cambric, stuff, wool.    From Wordnik.com.  [Excerpt: Timothy by Verlyn Klinkenborg] Reference

Janes twilled, huccabac, broadcloth, counterpain, birdseye diaper, Kirsey wool, barragon, fustian, bed-ticking, herring-box, and shalloon.”.    From Wordnik.com.  [The True George Washington]

This charge, which was immediately explained to the bench, yielded extraordinary satisfaction to the spectators, one of whom, being an officer of the customs, forthwith began to exercise his function upon the unlucky perruquier, who, being stripped of his upper garments, and even of his shirt, appeared like the mummy of an Egyptian king, most curiously rolled up in bandages of rich figured gold shalloon, that covered the skirts of four embroidered waistcoats.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Adventures of Ferdinand Count Fathom — Volume 01] Reference